Croan Lower
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's Clonmel, barony of Glenahiry, Co. Waterford; in Irish Cruán Íochtarach
- Area
- 8.3 ha
- 21 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 1,571 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croan Lower, from 239 m² to 44,388 m² (4.44 ha, 10.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2RS (Existing residential)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4SRR (Strategic Residential Reserve)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS (Open space, park)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Aug 2026N/a
development which will consist of 115 no. residential units comprising 5 no. 3 storey blocks with 14 no. 1 bed apartments, 9 no. 2 bed apartments and 24 no. 3 bed duplexes; and 68 no. 2 storey houses (24 no. 2-bed houses, 24 no. 3-bed houses and 20 no. 4 bed houses). A 2-storey creche (c.208 sqm), 181 no. car parking spaces, 366 no. cycle parking spaces, open spaces, bin stores and ESB substations. The proposal includes for a new vehicular and pedestrian access and upgrades along the Coleville Road (R680). All associated site development works (including site reprofiling), landscaping, boundary treatments and services connections
Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 26115
31 May 2019Conditional
to demolish an existing dwelling and construct a one and a half storey replacement dwelling, upgraded entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19380
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croan Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croan Lower.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croan Lower.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Croan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Croan Lower · Cruán Íochtarach
- Area
- 83,117 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary's Clonmel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Electoral division
- Clonmel East Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonmel East Urban electoral division: 4,155 people in 1,800 households; 57% of households own their home; 13% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Croan Lower (Co. Tipperary), Croan Upper, Kilgainy Lower, Moanmehill (Co. Tipperary), Raheen (Co. Tipperary), Spa
- Placenames
- Croan Lower on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.